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Rubbery Figures Revisited
The
story we ran on Tuesday re Rubbery figures had a mathematical
error. Bugger! I pondered over the figures
for some time, but failed to realise that I had used the area of a
square kilometre, rather than square mile. Too bad the SMHEA never had
metric measurement in at the time and hence be able to use the same
excuse.
Regardless,
the error is mine and a big thank you to the prompt pointing out of
the error by the incredible number of readers that obviously took
the time to not only read the story, but were so inclined to
understand it.
It
is clear that the people who read SOS-NEWS are switched on and
interested in looking at all sides of the issues before us
all.
Sadly,
if the error I accidentally let enter my equations is correct, which
it is, the overstatement/error by the SMHEA was worse, by almost the
power of 3.
Such
an overstatement is not only grossly misleading, but with the
knowledge of hindsight is catastrophic for the ability of the scheme
to deliver. Given this,
we intend to leave the error as it stands and consider it the
extreme conservative result of the overstatement at this
time.
This
does not mean that the correction to our figures for those that wish
to have the right figures for the equation should not preclude those
so inclined to multiply the overstatement by 640 instead of 247.1
(being the correct acres to a square mile) or multiplying the final
mega-litre figures by 2.5900445.
My
apologies and once again thanks to our readers. If nothing else it was a
great accidental poll of both our readership and competence of
SOS-NEWS subscribers.
Thank
You
Brumbyy with
2Ys
Red
Fox
or Radical Green Prank
in Brown Country
At
long last common sense is starting to prevail in the Apple Isle and
at least some people of repute are prepared to allow sanity and
common sense to take precedent over knee jerk green radicalism if
the below story from the SMH is anything to go
by.
The
millions of tax-dollars spent and ear-marked to be spent, where it
should be saving sick kiddies lives and giving the elderly a better
standard of living to name just a few important issues, may just
soon be put on hold.
SOS-NEWS,
like all responsible rural and metro folk, realise the threat foxes
would present should they get a foothold in Tasmania, but the
emotional clap-trap that has followed the scant evidence tendered,
thereby claiming that the Tassie fox-existence is irrefutable,
beggars belief in a modern world’s lateral thinking society.
Quite
simply, put a bounty on the head of any fox physically and
scientifically proved to have lived and been killed in the Isle
State and make the bounty substantial, so as to make it worth your
weekend warrior wasting his, or her time, seeking the unicorn of
Green Myth and at the same enact a legislative power to jail any who
transgress the spirit of the bounty system. Yes, the spirit of the
Bounty system. Thereby
in one foul act, ensure legal loop-holes are for the judges to
decide, not the lawyers to argue. In other words scat,
carcass, or parts thereof and live foxes taken to the Island State
of Tasmania will get one a guaranteed holiday in Risdon Prison for
the perpetrators, with the judges hands tied by mandatory
sentencing.
Don’t
be so quick to lay blame on the Forestry Industry for alleged
importation of evidence.
The benefits to the Radical Green movement are just as
positive if not more so, as the use of 1080 poison is to the
Forestry. For if the
fox is deemed to be a politically hot potato and apparently it is by
the ear-marked millions of dollars already in play over
unsubstantiated mythical sightings and evidence that is suspect to
its origins, it is a highway to junket funds for those emotionally
driven, but fact deprived sycophants, that seem for some oblivious
reason to hold vote counting power at election
times.
It’s
amazing how hunting is the main reason most animals becoming
endangered and some extinct, yet the tax-dollar hunting junket
seekers, deny this as a means to remove a pest, such as the
fox. Why? Because it does not satisfy
their thirst for power, greed and control.
$5
million dollars ear-marked for bounty payouts for genuine Tasmanian
fox kills, leaves $23 million dollars for essential deprived social
services from the latest fund and the government makes money from
the interest the account accrues that this $5 million is deposited
in, because, there would never be a bounty collected
honestly.
The
Sydney Morning Herald. April 18, 2007 -
1:44PM
Evidence
being used to convince Tasmanian's that wiping out the foxes that
exist on the island is flawed, a former high-ranking policeman
says.
Launceston
Mayor Ivan Dean says the state government risks spending millions of
taxpayers' dollars to eradicate foxes "without knowing the cold hard
facts".
Mr
Dean headed an investigation into reports that foxes had been
introduced from interstate when he was Tasmania's northern district
police commander in 2001.
"That
inquiry found no evidence of any nature to support claims that foxes
were here and there is still no evidence of that today," he
said.
The
state government is planning to spend $28 million over the next 10
years on the eradication program and wants the Commonwealth to match
the amount, taking the total cost to $56
million.
"The
state is contributing $28 million to a fox eradication plan, but the
evidence which is being used to support that theory is flawed," Mr
Dean, who is also the member for Windermere in the state Legislative
Council, said.
"I
have facts from eminently qualified people, one a doctor of
veterinary science, who is able to provide evidence to show a lot of
particulars in an independent report about fox finds in this state
are wrong."
He
said a fox which was allegedly run over and killed at Cleveland, in
the state's north, in 2006, could have been a
hoax.
"It
could have been killed on the mainland and brought over here as a
joke."
But
the Department of Primary Industries and Water says that to bring
over a very freshly road-killed fox would require "mischievous
opportunism".
The
state government is now taking its fox baiting program, using the
poison 1080, into public forests.
Forestry
Tasmania has banned the poison but says baits can be laid provided
they are buried at a minimum depth of five centimetres, reducing the
risk to other animals.
Mr
Dean says Tasmanian Devils could be put at
risk.
"The
can dig and have a good nose for food. Five centimetres is
nothing."
State
Minister for Primary Industries and Water, David Llewellyn said a
review panel interviewed "doubters and supporters" that foxes
existed in Tasmania last year.
He
said the conclusion was that a number of foxes had deliberately or
accidentally been introduced to the state since 1998 and that "some
of these and possibly their progeny are still living in the wild in
Tasmania".
Flannery Charging US $50,000 For
Speeches
Herald-Sun published this article
Climate
change crusader Tim Flannery has raised the prospect of handing back
his Australian of the Year award.
Prof
Flannery says he is in danger of politicising the nation's top
honour because he favours Labor leader Kevin Rudd's policies on the
environment over those of Prime Minister John
Howard.
"I
don't know what this means for me or the office of Australian of the
Year, whether it's better for me to give back the award and say that
it is simply impossible to continue things as they are," Prof
Flannery said yesterday.
"I
have to somehow tread a very difficult line."
Speaking
at an RMIT breakfast, Prof Flannery condemned the Howard
Government's refusal to ratify the Kyoto treaty and attacked Mr
Howard's treatment of climate change as an economic, rather than
moral, issue.
"The
emissions that have resulted from cooking our breakfast this morning
will still be in the atmosphere blighting the lives of our
grandchildren and their children. [STOP EATING BREKKIE,
EVERYONE!!]
"This
is an issue of intergenerational equity."
He
said Labor's position on global warming was "much more in line with
what needs to be done".
But
Prof Flannery later contacted the Herald Sun to say he had no plans
to return his gong.
"I
was giving an example. I have not considered giving back my award .
. . I'm extremely proud of it," he said.
In
an interview with the Herald Sun in February, Prof Flannery said the
honour had been soured by a campaign by industrial "polluters" to
discredit his views.
The
Herald Sun revealed Prof Flannery was charging US corporations up to
$US50,000 for speeches on climate change and environment.
The
Real Dingo
SOS-NEWS
unequivocally supports the destruction of the marauding killing
machine known as the dingo/wild dog. Conversely, advocates for the
protection of this bastardised species, themselves acknowledge that
there are few areas in Australia where the Dingo is a pure-bred
animal in its true form and this is almost totally in the north
western areas of this nation.
With the exception of Fraser Island off the coast of
Queensland.
It
is this National Park of Aboriginal owned, culturally sensitive land
and its surrounds where the Dingo roams in a natural
environment. An
environment that allows this creature to live, act and be viewed as
nature intended.
Numbers
of these animals on this Island of course have to be monitored for
both breed-quality control and health and well-being, but apart from
those managerial concerns, this animal should be allowed to live and
thrive. Sadly, humans
visit this canine realm and neither understand, nor appreciate what
it is that they are seeing and interacting with and hence from time
to time incidents of a terrible nature come to
fruition.
Do
not blame the Dingo for attacks on human beings on Fraser
Island. They are not
pets, nor are they domesticated and for the uneducated tourists to
perceive that wild Dingoes are domesticated due to the fact they
loiter around camp-sites etc is clearly indicative of just how far
removed the average tourist has become from the realities of life
beyond the controlled city precincts.
Food
is what they are after and scraps left and fed by the unsuspecting
tourist is just that, but so too are any small moving creatures such
as toddlers and children wandering alone, or left unattended. The dingo is a wild animal
making the best of his environment to survive and survival for this
native dog is eating, pro-creating and domain domination, becoming a
tourist photo model is not part of their genetic
make-up.
There
can be no comparison of the pure Dingo population contained on
Fraser Island and its bastardised cousins on the mainland causing
immense damage to both native and domestic animals. The call by some to destroy
the Dingoes on Fraser Island is not only dramatically incorrect, but
clear evidence just how far out of touch many people and
organisations are in respect to human co-existence with
nature.
The
Wild-Dog which is spread over vast areas of this island-continent,
Australia, has become a Green Protected killing-machine causing
terrible unchecked carnage for rural and natural Australia and by so
portraying, project the wild-dog as some mythological environmental
saviour. ( In reality, a vanguard for agenda) Yet here where the real pure
Dingo lives, breeds and is revered as a tourist attraction by most,
on a tract of land that is surrounded by a shark infested moat, the
same idiosyncratic humans with no understanding of the real world
now have part of their clan calling for the population of real
Dingoes to be destroyed.
Man
has to learn to survive in his environment and the rural sector of
this nation has done well doing so. Yes, mistakes were made, but
for decades now rural folk have come to terms with their environment
and mixed historical knowledge with sound science and made this
country great. Sadly,
their city cousins have been subjected to academic myth-information
with no sound practical experience backing it and hence have
delivered to this nation a powerful sub-group of citizens that in
reality know zilch by fact, but by virtue of their political might,
cause much destruction, angst and ill-direction. So much so, that this nation
Australia is on the cusp of a citizenry split that may take
generations to repair if we do not return to
commonsense.
Radical
Green environmentalism and its proponents - from destroying timber
and fishing industries, denying vegetation controls on rural
properties, causing national parks to grow into unmanaged
conflagatory forests, driving Carbon Dioxide to become a financial
trading tool, interfering in agricultural and animal husbandry
practises that although may affect city sensibilities, are necessary
across the board, controlling water and its uses and worth - are
without doubt the most dangerous fifth column that has emerged in
Australia and this world today.
This inability to
see Fraser Island for what it is and its pure Dingo inhabitants for
what they are and allow nature to continue in its purist form that
this era allows because of human ineptitude to see and understand
reality, is a warning bell of the most significant magnitude.
As
sad as a kiddies life, lost or damaged is because of a parental lack
of understanding for the environment, or just bad luck, it is no
reason to attempt to destroy the very nature that is acting as God
intended.
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